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Jerome Kohlberg Jr. (July 10, 1925 – July 30, 2015) was an American businessman and investor. He was an early pioneer in the private equity and leveraged buyout industries founding private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and later Kohlberg & Company.
Aug 1, 2015 · Jerome Kohlberg Jr., a veteran financier who pioneered the $2.6 trillion leveraged-buyout industry but later rejected its hunger for huge and aggressive deals, died on Thursday at his home in...
Jun 3, 2024 · Youth and Education. Jerome Kohlberg, born on July 10, 1925, in New York, embarked on a journey that would significantly impact the world of finance and investment. He pursued higher education at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and was later called to serve in the US Navy during World War II.
Jerome Kohlberg Jr., a veteran financier who pioneered the $2.6 trillion leveraged-buyout industry but later rejected its hunger for huge and aggressive deals, died on Thursday at his home in Martha’s Vineyard. He was 90. The cause was cancer, of which he had received a diagnosis two decades ago, his son James said.
Aug 1, 2015 · Jerome Kohlberg Jr., who orchestrated the creation of the leveraged-buyout powerhouse Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. -- today’s KKR & Co. -- only to walk away following a bitter struggle with...
Aug 1, 2015 · Jerome Kohlberg Jr., a founder of investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co and a pioneer of the leveraged buyout, died on Thursday at his home in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts,...
Aug 4, 2015 · Kohlberg died in 2015 at age 90, after launching KKR in 1976 with Henry Kravis and George Roberts. He resigned from the firm in 1987 over philosophical differences and ethical concerns about hostile takeovers.
